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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 26, 1928)
1 1 V&ff6 Six THE EVENING HERALD. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON Momlav, Novemufi' 2ii, 102ft febwning 1 Mcfcre v V(f cis a Vftroriged Hi isband Off the Stage, But on Stage hie Acted in Comedy the Tragedy Of His Own Misfi ' By ANTHONY PKAf.A ortunes in L rOI.ICRL. one of the Kiralrst comic dramatists ol.all lime, was true lo llie immemorial tradition ol I uneliirwllo (tic clown who plays the Inol with a breaking lw.nl. He suflrred agonies Irom llie faithlessness ol wile ol whom lie wan the passionate raptive. yet he seired on his gtiel and Iwi.-tcd il into farce for the amusement of llie world. Moliere, the unliapy lover and husband, is the life and renter of (he great plays of Moliere. the poet and actor: and the audiences that paid and applauded did not know at what dreadful secrets they were smiling. The seventeenth century world in which he lived was rich, lax. and brilliant. It was during these days that Moliere. in the early twenties, was wandering through the south with his company of players, and his i. i.liess and partner, Madeleine Bejart. -, ' 1 (is fatlier was upholsterer to the king, and Moliere, wliose real namtf. was Jran-Baptiite Potjuelin, had feen apprenticed to the cratt. had studied for the law, and had thrown up both lor the theater and Madeleine. 'pilC woman was beautiful red haired, clear skinned, and , the possessed considerable dramatic talent. ' For Moliere the had come to feel a genuine affection, though the moral altitiide of the troupe did not prevent infidelities on either side. Love intrigues were llie common order, and hus bands, wives, and lovers were mixed in a perpetual merry-go-round of brief liaisons. So it went on, with easy .ears and easier laughter, until, years later. Armandc came and swept all other loves into oblivion. It was this girl who was at once Moliere ' inspiration and his tragedy; she who was the secret shadow behind his finest works, giving life to his laughter, but death to his happiness. She played in the comedies that were the translations of his - sufferings, and. under lire forms of fiction, re-enacted terrible realities. . RMANDK, as a child, came to live with Madeleine, shar ing the life of the troupe. Moliere treated her with ex traordinary kindness and affection, making himself responsible lor -her upbringing and education, guarding her carefully from the coarser contacts to which she was exposed by her life in the company. Meanwhile Moliere and his players had established them selves in Paris, hrst at the Hotel du Petit Bourbon and then at the Palais Royal. Armande was growing up, and Moliere was growing famous. "The girl had shown unusual dramatic Aptitude, end. under his tuition, she soon became ripe for her debut. , ' 'j Accordingly, in "The School for Husbands" a small part was written for her. which she played with immense success. Her charm, her youth, the technical skill of her acting, brought tier the praise and sonitthiiig more of the fashionable men ci the day. - . I..'.' ovc 4&&Ci j&ir$L- . ma JfflSfcV A ra.VSP mmmMMmm:: m tea 4imanJe riJir.g atop the "Jiariol" of Molitre's , . i&V'liu t" J j traveling pajjers, ram At dtun'mg btf Job. . ., SeJ"" ''' f&jT . (lieprotliietton by permission DurTlcM L Co,) 4v&l ' "VV1 kl IT. was liwr.g in " M o I ie 1 e ' s house, cirelully shielded; and now. nfler hei triumph, lie U-gan lo lie al.mned. Without his lull leali.v lion, she had Ciken a him hold on his heart, and thn man. whose loves had been so many and so contused, could not l)ear the thought that little Armamlt should be captured "and deiilcd by some court gallant with more wiles than conscience. Slie was ajiout six teen, slender. witty, with a peilrct knowl edge of how to diess, and with a fine voice. Tliough site was not beautiful, she had that personality and that subtlety of expression that are far more power ful than beauty, and that draw men so easily. Moliere, real i?ing this, fell a "victim, for all his intellectual de tachment, and from be ing a guardian oecame a pleading loer. 00 he proposed marriage or perhaps commanded it 4'mavJe riJir.g alop the "tltariot" of Molitre's traveling players, 10m Ifw ilranmg tu yob. (lieprntliietton by permission DufflcM L Co,) and Armande. whether from gratitude, or because she felt flattered. or because it seemed the most natural thing, accepted him. TJUT he was forty, and sfie was riot yet twenty. He was busy and preoccupied with authorship and management, she was full of youth and its dreams, derrmndir.g gallanlues and romantic attentions. Her stage career had brought her into touch with the "great world," and she expected from iter hus band the same undivided homage that it set-mrd to promise lier and he did not give it. ; Thus began llie tragcJy. ' - ' k ; " V , It is not the least irony of the story thai llie n:an v.lio "could portray life and sis follies wit!: ?udi penetrating' exactitude should l:aTiinitlf been blind-to tTic rrahties of lib own silu.i ; lion. - - " But if love is blind, passion is deaf as' v.-cil. and il was pas sion, violent and overmastering, that he felt fur the slir.i gi.l whom he came to hate the more he loved her. ar.d l uc the more he hated her, in an endlns ciicle of lo.iare. For Armande did not lor.g leave her huibsnd in d)uh. Sh." made it plain in an irrevocable way liul she caird little foi l.i J. 7 ? V. V JJER first lover is said to have been a . grand nephew of Riche lieu, and that a If air was .followed by her infatuation for t h e C 0 m t e cle Cuiche, who. pre - occupied with his love for the dauglt Icr of Charles I., ignored her, and drurher into the arms cf the Uuc d Lauwns And there were others. " 1 he strain, increases) by continuous work.' could not lonj endure, ar.d after a time llie malady which had already hern troubling Moliere grew worse. . lie, was then at the heisflil of his fame, biendly with llie Kir.j, and ihe founder of a pre.H theater of French comedy- - l';e oiigriial of lhe"CorneJie Fiancaiie" of today. 'A new play was in hand "llie Imaginary Invalid" anil Moliere, who -.-.. V ftSlK- ofhislif, ,K '"-T 'Wrl l''or . . 77ie auiienen apphiiJeJ 7iii tlcvtr tlij not (now at what grim tccrcli ihry . uvre fjnif'ii'ii,1. had rflected somelhing like a reroncitiation with his wifa, w rote a part lor her, I le pl.iyrd Uie 111 If inle, and K was his lasl. I'l IC plot turned Un a hypochondiiac who, suspicious of his wife, feirrns death in order In lri her real fiehnits, and as he lislrned to Hie words he had put into llie mouth of the faithless Helinr, the last iiony AiBiaiule . . . teas Molitre's in spiration anJ n's IroSfdv. IUe Hf lo his cinpili-r, Ic.jli to lit hoppimss e was romiilete.' Aim.ind f:iL'..,l ill n.nl nrul .il ll,i I ,l.il ""f 'yv'' four ill perluiinanee Mnlieie. iiinuljlllig llie death i$r M ,n c"m'' 'rw If"" hraid these uimlt fmm Ins wife. ' rJ "What was the use nl him) A man ol whom iffy everybody was lirrd, couifliing, -pilling, trnublewime. r Fa ullVJSVt ill fnuiered Wnrmif u nil mil k.ul vil.linit jjFAlll. indeed, was in the theater that night, Moliere, stiiigvhng somehow lluotili the irr(oimance. was seied toivards the end with a ennvubion. ' Il happened in llie inidsl of a dance of mock doctors (another iro'iy), and when the ruit.iin had fallen on the dieadiut rnmed) I f - ud lo a frinid, "I inn dying of cold I" '1 hry look him home to bed, and gave him lillle food. A :!.;.! lime aflciwaids he Ik?. in couching blnotl. " I here is a change," he said. "Go nrtd fetch my wile." 'I v.o r.uns were with him. and while Aimandc was being rallrd lie was scied ng.iin by viohut couuhiii;;, bloml choked tin.', and he dierl in ttu ir aiiiit. Amu'ide came too laic. At The Pine Tree ' stamltt at , apartment the and window of Ihe . looks down on I Iho husy KtroetB lielow liisn. "(Jee, Ma." says (iillwrt, Hklru have gotten shorter and What's the f'TKt thing' a man .(..lllanf In., , ..t. I IM HJHS'Jr, UttVCII I IIIJ. our years .. John Gilhe.rt "supnlle ilio, au- wer In his ' new" starrlnB plc ure, "Four Wallx." today at Hie 'Ine Tree thealro. (iilhort plays he role of an cx-convict who re urm to Bast Sldo of New York ifter four years in Stng Sing. On the day he is released, he hurries directly to his home in be Ghetto where ' his mother It is liv such liiiman touchcx 1 as this that has . mailt! "Konr j Walls." out? of the most human 1 pictures that Cilhort lias ever I brought to the screen. Joan i Crawford has the leading femin ; lne role, while the cast includes iCariucl Myers. Vera Gordon, Louis Natheaux, Ilobert . Emmet O'Connor uod oihcrs of note At The Liberty 0 Tim McCoy, Western film star, has Just completed "Spoil ers of the West." said to he tho most nerfeet American fron tier picture ever fllmi'd. 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